Complete HarpWeek Explanation:Nast followed up "Continue That I Broached In Jest" (which
appears in miniature in the lower-left) with this sequel two weeks later,
celebrating the Republican nomination of Rutherford Hayes for president and
William Wheeler for vice president. Along the left is a summary of the
Republican platform, displaying the party's endorsement of black civil rights
(#3), the gold standard (#4), civil service reform (#5), tariffs (#8), women's
rights (#12), and Union veterans' pensions (#14); its opposition to unrestricted
immigration of Chinese workers (#11) and Mormon polygamy (#13); and its
association of the current Democratic party with Confederate sympathizers during
the Civil War (#16 explicitly and #1 implicitly). Behind the jubilant Nast, the
now-unified supporters of the other top presidential contenders embrace and
cheer the Hayes-Wheeler ticket. The caption "Why We Laugh" is the
title of a book by Democratic Congressman S. S. "Sunset" Cox.